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I remember when Charles O. Howard was murdered. I remember it because it happened in my home county of Aroostook. And because I was working in radio at the time in my home town of Presque Isle. It was a topic of discussion on several talk shows I hosted and participated in. It was the primary reason I abandoned my home, family, and roamed the US looking for a "safe" place. I remember when Charles O. Howard was murdered. I remember it because it happened in my home county of Aroostook. And because I was working in radio at the time in my home town of Presque Isle. It was a topic of discussion on several talk shows I hosted and participated in. It was the primary reason I abandoned my home, family, and roamed the US looking for a "safe" place.


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I remember when Charles O. Howard was murdered. I remember it because it happened in my home county of Aroostook. And because I was working in radio at the time in my home town of Presque Isle. It was a topic of discussion on several talk shows I hosted and participated in. It was the primary reason I abandoned my home, family, and roamed the US looking for a "safe" place.

People didn't want the three kids, 15, 16 and 17, to be tried as adults for their crimes, and they were not. They got away with cold-blooded murder. It is a lie when they say that they didn't intend to kill Charles; a witness heard Charles beg them, as they pried his hands off the rail and threw him into the cold water twenty feet below, as Charles pleaded for his life and told them that he could not swim; as he gasped from terror and asthma and the pain of his fractured ribs from them kicking and punching him.

People in my home county did not value Charle's life. They had no interest in justice, and the message that the murder of a fagot was a much lesser crime was loud and clear. Imagine the impact on your life, to hear this message from your own mother; to hear people in your community call-in to your talk show and proclaim that Charle's death was deserved.

This crime had an impact on people. It made people afraid; it was a form of state sponsored terrorism. Justice was not served. This crime was the culmination of people in Bangor targeting Charles; they strangled his cat and left it on his doorstep. They taunted and harassed him. The days leading up to his murder were filled with the complicity of the people of Bangor. They are complicit still. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.192.42 (talk • contribs)

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